Tipton: "We don't plan on retiring. We've said that this is our last world tour. It takes a chunk out of your life — 18 months. We won't be doing any more world tours as such and in many parts of the world, it will be the last time people will get a chance to see us. But we're not gonna stop. We've got an album in the can now, we will start to write with Richie, there will be more albums, and who knows?! There might be a string of dates that we can manage to do. We're just not gonna do another major world tour. We've been doing it for 40 years and it's time to let the younger bands have the chance."

On replacing JUDAS PRIEST's founding guitarist Kenneth "K.K." Downing, who announced his departure from the band in April:

Faulkner: "In reference to filling K.K.'s shoes, they're big shoes to fill. He's an influence on my playing, I'm a great fan of him and the band and the guitar playing in PRIEST in general. I'm not taking anything away from anything he'd ever done. So I know what I've gotta do as a fan and as now a member of the band. I knew some of the songs already — obviously as a fan, I knew some PRIEST songs; I learned them growing up — and there were some which I didn't know; some of the stuff that's on some of the earlier records that we're doing as part of the set I had to learn. So I knew some and I got to learn some new ones as well, so it was a great experience, really."